Stories Related to This Day In History, May 9, 2019

digital.media, The News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana)
Thu, 05/09/2019 - 4:00am

Today is Thursday, May 9, the 129th day of 2019. There are 236 days left in the year. Today's highlight On May 9, 1980, 35 people were killed when a freighter rammed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida, causing a 1,400-foot section of the southbound span to collapse. On this date read more

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